Harriet Fitch Little
@harrietfl.ft.com
FT Magazine Food and Drink editor
ok while i'm here, both I and the food and drink editor @harrietfl.ft.com made this yesterday and it is as good as I remember it being in the restaurant as.ft.com/r/30eeeb4a-b...
Recipe: A go-to chicken marinade for barbecue bliss
Singburi’s buttery, spicy chicken thighs are the answer to warm weather hosting
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Nigella's magic is that when I read her I think yes i will make this. But unlike every other how to live life better piece i ever read, i actually do.
Can’t cook, won’t cook? Start by feeding yourself — Nigella Lawson
A cure for kitchen nerves, plus a recipe for anchovy pasta
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Starting now - @nigella.bsky.social answers FT readers' questions about practical, easy, everyday cooking... for example, what to do with 500g of minke whale. as.ft.com/r/c97b3692-4...
It's spring! Season of optimism and wholesome resolutions. For example: wouldn't it be nice to take more joy from cooking? @nigella.bsky.social is here to help YOU learn how. Just submit a question via the link below, with answers coming 1pm on Tuesday.
FT Weekend@ftweekend.com · 4mo agoSubmit your questions to Nigella Lawson: How can I take more pleasure from cooking? ft.trib.al/sVwnIfv
Something good to start the month: writing that will make you want to abandon your plans for the day and spend it cooking. And as a special treat, @nigella.bsky.social’s first column is free to read www.ft.com/content/4819...
How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column
A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper
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Good morning and Happy Nigella Day! Because all is briefly right with the world and as a special treat, it's free to read. www.ft.com/content/4819...
How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column
A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper
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A version of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s arroz con pollo. The shards of chicken skin were outrageous. Courtesy of @harrietfl.ft.com at the FT.
The FT is hiring a correspondent for our Investigations team. Contact me if you want to discuss the role. Deadline is April 12 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...
‘It’s just a bomb’
The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
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In which I reveal myself to be an Angry Local Person who points at potholes as.ft.com/r/860738a7-8...
We should all be playing pothole politics
[FREE TO READ] Living in the ‘Potswolds’ has made me one of the Angry Local People pointing at our damaged roads
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I threw a Martha-Stewart-inspired Midnight Omelette Party, managed to get 30 people to come along, was allowed to write 2700 words about it by the brilliant @harrietfl.ft.com and it somehow ended up on the front cover of FT Weekend. READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE as.ft.com/r/96e10343-7... (gift link 🍳)
It’s a beautiful weekend — and for 300 lucky people who click the free link it can begin with reading this absoluyely mad yet undeniably insightful story from today’s egg-themed magazine. Jemima’s fever dream brought to life as.ft.com/r/2472cb26-a...
Can Jemima Kelly recreate Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party?
[FREE TO READ] Thirty guests. 111 eggs. A one-bed flat. A fearless host attempts the impossible omelette supper of her dreams
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I have been let loose on another issue of global import: the rise of onions that won’t make you cry… or feel anything at all really as.ft.com/r/20f60742-4...
What do we really gain from no-cry onions?
[FREE TO READ] Frankensteining low-pungency vegetables is popular, but with food the longer way round is often more enjoyable
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Some great columns this weekend. Here we have Jancis Robinson on an unrelatable but intriguing dilemma: what to do when you have more wine than you have time left to drink it as.ft.com/r/9412d53f-4...
What to do when you own more wine than you’ll ever drink
[FREE TO READ] A generation of serious collectors are confronting an enviable problem: more bottles than time
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Forgot my headphones for the train (sad) but turns out the people sat behind me are work colleagues on the brink of affair (or currently affairing - hard to say for sure but the energy is so potent I think not) Who needs podcasts! The world is full of wonders for those with ears to hear them!
This week’s guest restaurant review is about a cheap chain restaurant in an Abu Dhabi mall. If you’re thinking “that won’t move me greatly” you’d be very wrong!!! as.ft.com/r/37cca3fb-5...
Notebook, Abu Dhabi: the Keralan chain restaurant where the UAE’s working classes eat
[FREE TO READ] Forget the flash options. This Malayalee mainstay in a mall is your key to the city
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Do you really have something better to be soon with your Sunday than mastering the art of laminated potatoes? as.ft.com/r/d49bca71-f...
The winter-defying joy of perfectly layered potatoes
[FREE TO READ] A detailed guide to cooking Dauphinoise, Pommes Anna and other laminated delights
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We have guest restaurant reviewers in for the next three weeks, all in places we might struggle to get @jayrayner1.bsky.social to without blowing the full weekend budget. First up, this brilliant piece on how to open a hit restaurant in Ukraine as.ft.com/r/62ed053a-0...
Musafir, Kyiv: It takes guts and good generators to run a buzzy restaurant in wartime Ukraine — review
[FREE TO READ] Against all odds, Kyiv’s restaurant scene is thriving
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Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
I had the pleasure (?) of accompanying Jay on this weekend’s review. While I am disappointed he didn’t include my incisive attempt at restaurant criticism (“the loos were really cold”) it’s nonetheless a very good piece
Jay Rayner@jayrayner1.bsky.social · 6mo agoFor today’s @ftweekend.com I am at The Porter’s Table inside the £73million Guinness Brewery development in London’s Covent Garden. And despite some okay cooking, wondering whether an overblown marketing exercise can really produce a good restaurant (TLDR: no) www.ft.com/content/58e0...
“I dont see myself making a Christams in Paradise 2, OK?” FT reporting 🤝 a real life Caribbean crime drama - the perfect match as.ft.com/r/c83adbba-d...
The man who saw too much
[FREE TO READ] After decades chasing stars and scrambling for financing, Philippe Martinez became an unlikely crusader
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“Everything is copy” - which to a food editor means if you mention in passing that you really enjoyed your dinner, there’s a 50/50 chance it will end up on our recipe page. With thanks to @janinegibson.ft.com in this case as.ft.com/r/b97949b2-6...
Recipe: The FT Weekend editor’s go-to crispy chicken and rice
[FREE TO READ] abc kitchens’ arroz con pollo is a dish that many diners dream of recreating. Now you can
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This is still less embarrassing than when I bought myself a nice ring I’d seen my friend wearing - only to discover it was her and her girlfriend’s (matching) engagement ring
Huw@followhuw.bsky.social · 6mo agoMy parents have bought the same car as their neighbours, who they share a drive with. Same colour and everything. It’s the most embarrassing thing they’ve ever done
It stopped raining for 15 minutes today so I went for a little walk and immediately fell over in the mud. Now I am home, it is raining again and nothing has changed except my clothes are covered in mud.
I have thought about it carefully and decided that, for the sake of my mental health during rainmageddon, I’m just going to pretend I never read this. as.ft.com/r/4e857ae2-3...
Are we killing birds with kindness?
[FREE TO READ] New evidence suggests that feeding our feathered friends is spreading disease and diminishing numbers. But stopping seems cruel
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A welcome sighting of the rare, endangered (and sadly no conservation status given) “let’s get a bottle” lunch @henrymance.ft.com as.ft.com/r/26713c1c-4...
You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...
Maps remade
An FT Magazine special feature on how to map a changing world
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